MOSSBACK STUDIO

MOTD generator for Minecraft servers

Write the two lines players see in the server list, pick colours or a gradient, and copy the result in the form your server needs: server.properties, Velocity, MiniMessage or & codes.

Where to put it

• server.properties: replace the whole motd= line with the one from here, save, restart the server. The odd looking codes are the colour sign written so the file can not break it.
• Velocity: replace the motd = "..." line in velocity.toml and restart the proxy. Velocity reads MiniMessage, so a gradient is one short tag.
• MOTD plugins: most plugins for Paper take MiniMessage or & codes, one line per config line. Use the form the plugin's own config shows.

Good to know

• A MOTD has two lines. Text that is too long for a line is cut or moved to the next line by the game.
• You can type & codes inside the text: &a for a colour, &#55FF99 for a hex colour, &l bold, &o italic, &n underline, &m strike, &k scrambled, &r back to the line's colour. With a gradient the colours come from the gradient and the styles stay.
• Hex colours and gradients in server.properties work on Spigot and Paper servers from 1.16 on. A vanilla server shows only the 16 classic colours: tick the box and the gradient is made from the nearest ones.
• Centring is done with spaces and is worked out from the letter widths of the game's font. It is an estimate: look at it in your server list once, and add or remove a space if needed. The preview here uses another font and only shows the colours.
• Letters outside the basic Latin set are counted as normal width, so centring is less exact with them.

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